Books The Invisible City Beneath ParisThe New Yorker - Robert MacfarlaneUnder the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers. The map runs to sixteen laminated foolscap pages, or about
Slave Ship Alabama Historians: The Last Known Slave Ship Has Been FoundThe New York Times - By RICHARD FAUSSETOver the years, the hunt for the remains of the last ship known to have brought enslaved people into the United States has been fraught with a mix of tumult and hope. There was a discovery last year of
Business ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi DriversThe New York Times - By BRIAN M. ROSENTHALThe phone call that ruined Mohammed Hoque’s life came in April 2014 as he began another long day driving a New York City taxi, a job he had held since emigrating from Bangladesh nine years earlier. The
Play buttonMusic (UK) Blue Note boss Don Was: 'Jazz can't become synonymous with pop again'The Guardian - Ammar KaliaOnly work with people you trust. If you don't respect an artist enough to lose an argument to them, you shouldn't be producing them I loved the record covers. I would ride a bus across town, going 45 just
U.S. Politics Tristan Harris says tech is “downgrading” humanity — but we can fix itVox - Eric JohnsonThe unchecked growth of technology is like climate change, says tech ethics advocate and Time Well Spent co-creator Tristan Harris. Problems such as “tech addiction, polarization, outrage-ification of
Textbooks Why books don't workandymatuschak.org - Andy Matuschak Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in …
You’re No Longer the Man Now, Dog!New York Magazine - Brian Feldman One of the World Wide Web’s most influential platforms has gone dark. With little fanfare, YTMND vanished over the weekend; trying to visit the site …
Patreon Paid Email Newsletters Are Proving Themselves As A Meaningful Revenue Generator For WritersBuzzFeed - Alex Kantrowitz As writers gravitate toward paid email newsletters, small audiences translate to meaningful dollars.
Sports Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”The New Yorker - Troy PattersonThe other day, on the subway, I observed an American male in contemporary business-casual costume. The color of his trousers was richly nondescript. He wore the clean good sneakers of a cautious wonk on
Joe Russo What It Was Like Making the Biggest Movie of 2019The Atlantic - David SimsThe brothers Anthony and Joe Russo discuss their unlikely journey to directing Marvel’s megahit Avengers: Endgame. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is defined by its spandex-clad stars—heroes including Captain
Twitter The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.The Atlantic - Yascha MounkPolitical leaders believe that the views they encounter online are representative of the “general public.” They’re not. Ever since Donald Trump made Twitter his preferred medium for communicating with
Wet Plate Photography Makes Tattoos Disappearpetapixel.com - Michael Zhang Here’s something you may not have known about the 1800s wet plate collodion photography process: it can make certain tattoos disappear in photos. …
Fort Wayne, IN What Happens to Abandoned Malls?The Atlantic - James FallowsIn a report last week from Fort Wayne, Indiana, I noted what I considered the mid-century tragedy of big, sprawling, “modern” shopping malls displacing historic downtowns, only to become bankrupt eyesores
Film (UK) In Conversation: Anjelica Hustonvulture.com - Andrew Goldman Anjelica Huston admits that her latest film, John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, is not in her favorite genre. “I don’t like violent movies,” she says. …
Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon ValleyThe New York Times - By NELLIE BOWLESYoung men are staggering around, hungry for days. They are throwing themselves into ice baths and cryotherapy pods. There are not enough beds at the silent vegan meditation centers to accommodate them.
Technology The Raisin SituationThe New York Times - By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICHFRESNO, Calif. — Millennials just weren’t eating raisins. So Sun-Maid, the century-old company with the iconic little red raisin boxes, hired someone to convince them that they should. At 38, Harry Overly
Lifehacks Introduce Your Kid to More Diverse YouTube Game StreamersLifehacker - Stephen Johnson One of our readers emailed us with an interesting problem: He’s the father of three boys, ages 6, 10, and 12, and they love watching gaming streamers …
A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for biasThe Verge - Adi RobertsonUS lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require large companies to audit machine learning-powered systems — like facial recognition or ad targeting algorithms — for bias. The Algorithmic Accountability
Here’s Everything The Mueller Report Says About How Russian Trolls Used Social Mediabuzzfeednews.com - Ryan Broderick The Mueller report clearly describes how Russian trolls reached millions of people on Facebook, were quoted in major newspapers as real Americans, …
Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game!boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Jason Scott has made the source available for every one of Infocom's classic and genre-defining text adventure games (previously) for the Apple ][+ …
Opinion (India) Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?The New York Times - By ERIN GRIFFITHNever once at the start of my workweek — not in my morning coffee shop line; not in my crowded subway commute; not as I begin my bottomless inbox slog — have I paused, looked to the heavens and whispered:
Bernie Sanders Pierces the Fox News BubbleThe Atlantic - Conor FriedersdorfA town hall on the network was a risk for the self-described “democratic socialist.” It paid off. On Monday night, Fox News aired a town hall with Bernie Sanders, a front-runner in the 2020 Democratic
Cathedrals On the Roof of Notre-Dame, Before It BurnedThe New Yorker - Lauren CollinsSeeing the spire of Notre-Dame split like a pencil, you wanted, honestly, to be sick. “La flèche s’est effondrée” (“The spire has collapsed”) was how they said it—on TV, on the radio, on Twitter—in French.
Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes - Issue 71: Flownautil.us - Chelsea Wald Not long ago I diagnosed myself with the recently identified condition of sidewalk rage. It’s most pronounced when it comes to a certain friend who …
English is one of the world's "weirdest" languages, say linguistsQuartz - Adam SchembriIs English a “weird” language? Many of us might feel this is true when we’re trying to explain its complex spelling rules, or the meanings of idioms such as “it’s raining cats and dogs” to someone who
In Uganda, a unique urban experiment is under wayNational Geographic - Nina StrochlicMagazineThe Cities Issue The world’s second largest refugee camp is slowly but surely transforming into a permanent city. MagazineThe Cities Issue 9 Minute Read By Nina Strochlic Photographs by Nora Lorek
Dear hiring manager, you’re welcometheoutline.com - Elena Botella Why is a job candidate supposed to thank an interviewer, rather than the other way around? In his 15th-century book Littleton’s Tenures, Sir Thomas …
Play button Welcome to the Yeehaw Agenda: The Black Cowboy Trend Behind the Internet’s Favorite SongGQ - By Rachel TashjianLil Nas X's viral “Old Town Road” didn't emerge from a vacuum. For the past several months, the internet has been fixated on the majesty of the black cowboy. In September of last year, Bri Malandro deemed
